coureur de bois

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fur trader operating in North America in the seventeenth or eighteenth century without permission from the French authorities. historical
    — Those who stayed in New France often fled the fields to take up lives in the wilderness, where they traded for furs with the Indians or simply “went native.” […] In contemporary terms, these woodsmen—or coureurs de bois—were first-generation immigrants to aboriginal societies whose cultures and values they partially assimilated.

词形变化

coureurs de bois plural coureur des bois alternative

词源

Borrowed from French coureur des bois, literally “woods runner”.
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